Tag: Malta

Enemalta has estimated it will cost nearly €49 million to repair a damaged interconnector cable and provide an alternative source of power after a chemical tanker dragged its anchor off Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq in a March storm.

Turkish tanker "Black Star" alleged to have taken part in transfer of palm oil and derivatives from Russian tanker.

NGO urges Malta to support the designation of an Emission Control Area (ECA) for low sulphur emissions.

The electrical machines manufactor, Nidec ASI was recently awarded a €12 million contract for the electrification of the berths in the Port of Malta, an initiative which goals to relauch tourism from a more sustainable perspective.

Damen Shipyards Group handed over a new, next-generation, Damen RSD Tug 2513 to Tug Malta, one of Malta’s leading tug operators.

Malta stopped passengers disembarking from the MSC Grandiosa cruise ship over a suspected case of COVID-19, on Friday, according to information by Tourism Minister Julia Farrugia Portelli.

While the maritime authorities have the main responsibility of ensuring the effectiveness of the flag States’ monitoring and reporting systems for human rights issues, these mechanisms are not always sufficiently implemented, a new report by British charity Human Rights at Sea shows. 

Amid COVID-19 pandemic, Merchant Shipping Directorate of Malta has forced supporting measures in order to protect and keep providing an uninterrupted service to the Maltese shipping community. In fact, the country's Directorate informed that the tax measures have been implemented from 1st of April.

Following the EU evaluation on energy taxation, Malta's Finance Minister Edward Scicluna said the country is against the removal of tax exemptions on aviation and shipping fuels from the Energy Tax Directive. The remarks were made on the sidelines of the Informal ECOFIN meeting in Helsinki.

During 2019, NGO BirdLife Malta informed that there will be no less than 122 port calls to Malta by Europe’s 'worst-polluting cruise ships', according to the Cruise Ship Ranking for 2019 which has just been published. The list, compiled by NABU was presented in the past days, and regarding this year’s ranking, 90 vessels were checked on their emissions’ impacts, especially on contribution to air pollution levels.